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No. 48 (2024)
Special Isuue: Literature and Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence

ARTICLES

Decolonising Reading Lists in the Age of AI: an Essay at the crossroads of Decoloniality, Childist Criticism and Chat GPT

https://doi.org/10.19053/uptc.01218530.n48.2024.18310

Published 2024-12-14

  • Macarena García González

Macarena García González
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, España

Abstract

This article critically examines the idea of decolonising reading lists in higher education, particularly within the context of a children’s literature course, inquiring into the increasing influence of artificial intelligence (AI) in knowledge production. Utilizing decolonial frameworks and integrating feminist and childist perspectives, this essay interrogates the superficial applications of decoloniality, as a form of decolonial washing. Through a comparison of responses of ChatGPT-3 as a case study, the research highlights the risks and possibilities of decolonial discourses when they get to be useful in academic approaches. This essay suggests that AI perpetuates colonial structures of knowledge and proposes to expand the inquiry with childish criticism to imagine other pathways. The article concludes by advocating for more radical, imaginative forms of decolonial practices.

Keywords

childhood, decoloniality, education, ChatGPT, bibliodiversity

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